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AI startups want to be protected by regulation, but also against overregulation: observations on a16z-Microsoft statement
Read more: AI startups want to be protected by regulation, but also against overregulation: observations on a16z-Microsoft statementA joint statement by venture investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith
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Hungarian competition authority GVH sees huge opportunities in AI, raises concerns over lack of support of “minor” languages
Read more: Hungarian competition authority GVH sees huge opportunities in AI, raises concerns over lack of support of “minor” languagesThe Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has published a report on AI that takes a rather positive view of the opportunities created by AI, but raises concerns about the lack of support of languages spoken by smaller numbers of people.
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Every AI partnership is a merger now: UK CMA investigating last year’s Google-Anthropic deal
Read more: Every AI partnership is a merger now: UK CMA investigating last year’s Google-Anthropic dealThe UK Competition & Markets Authority has launched a Phase 1 merger inquiry into last year’s deal between Google and Anthropic.
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German court hands down GenAI copyright ruling: robots.txt must be respected, but data mining by scientific non-profit is cleared
Read more: German court hands down GenAI copyright ruling: robots.txt must be respected, but data mining by scientific non-profit is clearedWhile dozens of U.S. copyright cases over Generative AI are still in the early stages, a German court has handed down a first ruling, applying EU copyright rules.
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Court stays Github AI copyright case to refer central DMCA question to Ninth Circuit: interlocutory appeal
Read more: Court stays Github AI copyright case to refer central DMCA question to Ninth Circuit: interlocutory appealJudge Jon S. Tigar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has granted a motion to let class-action lawyers appeal a specific legal question involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and has stayed the litigation.
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UK CMA clears third AI partnership analyzed as ‘merger’: Amazon-Anthropic (previously Microsoft-Inflection, Microsoft-Mistral)
Read more: UK CMA clears third AI partnership analyzed as ‘merger’: Amazon-Anthropic (previously Microsoft-Inflection, Microsoft-Mistral)A little over five months after launching three AI-related “merger” investigations of commercial partnerships, the CMA has concluded the last one without proceeding to an in-depth investigation. Still, the basis was structurally different in each case.
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Microsoft filing with UK CMA suggests Amazon and Google spend money on regulatory lobbying rather than software license fees
Read more: Microsoft filing with UK CMA suggests Amazon and Google spend money on regulatory lobbying rather than software license feesThe software licensing-related part of the UK CMA’s cloud market investigation appears to lack a numerical basis to prove adverse effects on competition.